The Naked Cowboy (tighty whitie-clad Robert John Burck) presses the flesh with two new friends celebrating national Underwear Day in Times Square.

Every day is Underwear Day for him:

The Naked Cowboy (tighty whitie-clad Robert John Burck) presses the flesh with two new friends celebrating national Underwear Day in Times Square.

Photo: Donald Traill, Associated Press

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Underwear record bid fails:

Uninhibited New Yorkers strip to bras and panties, boxers and briefs in Times Square in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most people gathered in their underwear. Alas, only 779 showed up in their skivvies, far short of the current record of 2,270.

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As Ed Sullivan would say, we have really big shoe:

Six-year-old Riva examines a pair of boots that would be roomy even for Shaquille O'Neal. The Victorian leather "Ivy Brand" Exhibition Balmoral boots are estimated to fetch between $15,000 and $18,500 when they go on sale Sept. 5 at Christie's in London.

Elaia and her sister, Lusitta (back), sit on some of the 1,600 Styrofoam pandas populating the front of Hauptbahnhof railroad station in Berlin. The World Wildlife Fund placed the bears in celebration of its 50th anniversary and to draw attention to the fact that only 1,600 pandas remain in the wild.

A scooter-riding family waits to board a
ferry at Gilimanuk Harbor in Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia. Muslims all over
Indonesia were returning to their ancestral villages to celebrate the Ramadan holiday
Eid Al Fitri.

A boy leaps into the water in a no-swimming area on Poland's Zegrze Lake near Warsaw. Thirty-five people have drowned in Poland since the
beginning of August amid an oppressive heat wave. Most had been drinking before entering the water at beaches without lifeguards.

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Somebody needs a napkin:

Veterinarian Catalina Hermoza bottle-feeds a 6-week-old white Bengal at the Huachipa Zoo on the outskirts of Lima. The unnamed female was separated from her mother, Clarita, because the mother was not lactating properly. She will join Clarita in about six months.

Constance Cowan, 87, of Duluth, Minn., examines a dog tag that belonged to her brother, James, who died in the Philippines during World War II. James Cowen, taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942, was aboard an unmarked POW ship that was bombed by American warplanes in 1944. Some 200 prisoners died in the attack, and Cowen was reported lost at sea. The dog tag ended up in the hands of a tour guide on the island of Corregidor, where James had been stationed.

at waterskiing, he can do it without even getting his tail wet at the Family Fun Zone in St. Joseph, Mich.

Twiggy has become so good

at waterskiing, he can do it without even getting his tail wet at the Family Fun Zone in St. Joseph, Mich.

Photo: Don Campbell, Associated Press

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Keep paddling, boys! I can see land!

A Japanese woman takes her Chihuahua-powered craft for a ride at Takeno Beach in Toyooka, Japan.

Keep paddling, boys! I can see land!

A Japanese woman takes her Chihuahua-powered craft for a ride at Takeno Beach in Toyooka, Japan.

Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe, Getty Images

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That's not the flask, that's my elbow:

Muslim worshippers try to touch and kiss a cloth-wrapped flask containing hairs believed to belong to Islam's Prophet Mohammed at the Hanbali mosque in Nablus, West Bank. The relic is brought out every year on the 27th day of Ramadan for devotees to view and seek blessings from.

Indonesians wait to receive zakat, or alms, given to the poor during Ramadan at a Gudang Garam tobacco factory in Kediri, East Java. Each person received 10,000 to 20,000 rupiah ($1-2) cash from the company.